No escape..

Like a near-death experience.

I only hope those who lived here ever got to appreciate the view or did it just make them wistful?

These murals look deranged. What is up with the artwork found in psychiatric hospitals. It makes me mental to look at it!

The perfect picture to capture the darkened history of psychiatric care. These pictures tell more than a thousand words. They are brilliant! Thanks.

You can almost visualize a lone patient sitting in this now vacant chair.

It is frightening how "self-contained" these hospitals were. Didn't need anything from the "outside" and I wonder if the "outside" ever had any idea what was really going on in here...

Let there be light.......

This pretty much speaks to both past and present.

The sheer magnitude of "waste" you have captured in these photos is amazing. I'm still trying to understand how they just got left behind... To think this room used to actually attempt to nourish patients is now hard to imagine. Thanks again for the incredible photos.

It is as if time just stands still. They were here one day and gone the next. Only a name tag is testimony that they even lived. What a strange time in our history.

I can't take my eyes off this entire website. I have never seen more moving photographs ANYWHERE. To say you have a gift for preserving the different moods of history is an understatement. I feel you are honoring all those who actually had to call these places home and what they must have gone through at the time. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Sorry about the poor grammer I should prof read

I remember hearin stories of Pennhurst as I grew up, my step mother worked there and so did my mothers best friend. I asked my mom again the other night after finding the site and doing a ton of browsing if the stories were true. She only works were "Pat worked nights and everything you heard is probly true." Love to get up there and see the place

Motts, I think this is my favorite picture thus far, only made it about 1/2 way through the site